U+0D0A "ഊ" Malayalam Letter Uu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ഊ
U+0D0A "ഊ" Malayalam Letter Uu is a character in the Malayalam script, representing the long vowel sound "ū" as in the English word "boot." It is part of the Brahmic family of scripts used to write the Malayalam language, primarily spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to ensure consistent digital representation across platforms, and it frequently appears in Malayalam words, including "ഊട്ടി" meaning "food" and "ഊര്" meaning "village."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D0A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Letter Uu |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ഊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ഊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB4 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D0A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D0A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d0a |